By: Robert Weiner and Griffin Cobb
Casey Means testified February 25 before the key Senate Health Committee who is assessing her ability to become the Surgeon General. Means' medical license lapsed in 2024. She said to Senator Andy Kim (NJ), "It would not make sense to reactivate" her license. That must be news to physician Bill Cassidy (LA), the committee's chair. Means has constantly made statements bashing the existing children's vaccination schedule, stating last year, they are "causing health declines in vulnerable children."
In addition, she made a statement on her personal X account from 2024 about the Hepatitis B shot for newborns, calling it "absolute insanity and should make every American pause and question the healthcare system's mandates."
However, at the hearing, means contradicted her past statements about vaccines, stating, "I believe vaccines save lives," when asked by Chairman Cassidy about whether she would encourage the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine for children.
We learned the hard way from nominee-designates' positions on choice, January 6 pardons, and other issues that Senate hearings' confirmation statements need to be hammered into reality. For example, when Pam Bondi, the now-Attorney General, stated at her meeting before the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I will look at each case and advise on a case-by-case basis" I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country," she ended up pardoning every insurrectionist anyway -- all 1500+, including the most violent ones sentenced after being found guilty of assaulting the police.
Means seems to be just babbling to get confirmed by the Senate Committee. When she finally gets the job, she will go back to the anti-vaccine rhetoric that she has stated and shown she believed her whole life in support of ally Robert F Kennedy Jr., now Health Secretary.
This is the last thing that our country needs as preventable disease continues to spread throughout the nation.
Just two months into the new year, there have already been 979 cases of measles alone in South Carolina, with 91 people in quarantine and one in isolation as of February 24, along with seven new outbreaks reported nationwide in 2026. These numbers are staggering and continue to rise by the day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to track the rise in cases across the nation, highlighting states where cases are prevalent, such as Utah with 117 and Florida with 64 cases.
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